Cosmetic Changes
Aveda Proves That Beauty is More Than Skin Deep with its Line of Green Health & Beauty Products…
Conscious Consumer
It’s Electric! Two Wheels and a Plug-In Motor Offer Alternative Commuter Transportation
The next time your town is having a "bad air" day, and you glare at your local smoke-spewing power plant, give a thought also to the vehicle in your own driveway. According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, cars, trucks and buses account for more than 50 percent of smog emissions. Car emissions are indirectly […]
A Sound Idea
A Sound Idea — Forest-Friendly Instuments Make Sweet Music. Greg Gaylord, a self-employed drum maker, works with wood almost every day. The lone owner and operator of aptly named Drum Solo in Novato, California, Gaylord spends his waking hours laboring over the many intricacies of his handcrafted snare drums.
A Growing Legacy
Saving Heirloom Seeds for a Sustainable Future Kent Whealy is saving the Earth, one tomato at a time. Known in seed circles as America’s godfather of the heirloom seed movement, Whealy is the founder of the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to systematically collecting and preserving heritage seeds from the past. Whealy started […]
It’s Nature’s Way
Earth-Friendly Gardening is Gaining Ground
Working Light
Shortcuts to the Greener Office The most environmentally-unfriendly place you step into all day may be the one in which you spend most of your waking hours. What’s that hostile environment? It’s your office. Think about it. The workplace welter of electronics gobbles watts, the office copier fairly inhales paper, and the air is tainted […]
Putt Putt
The Small Gas Engine Is an Environmental Nightmare Most summer weekends, a few million people use them to mow lawns, trim hedges, blow leaves or cut up firewood. Millions more use them to buzz over waterways and lakes in jet skis or motorboats. In the winter, people in the colder climates roar along snow-clogged residential […]
There Goes the Sun
Catching rays, soaking up sun, baking on the beach—there are myriad ways to describe the typical summer tanning experience. The popularity of tanning continues, despite well-proven correlation between sun exposure and skin cancer.
Hair to Dye For
Natural Alternatives to Toxic Coloring Agents I was born to be a redhead, but that’s not the color I got. The first time my hair dried to the glorious shade of red on the box of dye, I was hooked. I’m not alone: more than 50 million women in America dye their hair on a […]
Blocking the Burn
A Sun Worshipper’s Guide to Natural Summer Skin Care The sun has long been worshipped as a mood enhancer and an energy uplifter, but when it comes to your skin, there’s definitely a love-hate relationship. On one hand, skin needs the sun’s rays to receive and synthesize vitamin D. Moderate sun exposure has even been […]